Energy is used to breed and explore. If you do not have energy, you cannot breed, explore, PVP, or do any action that requires energy. Energy refills by 10% every 15 minutes, so long as your leader is not hungry. It takes two and a half hours to fully refill an energy empty bar all the way back up to 100%.

There are multiple ways to regain energy other than waiting for it to refill.

• Exploring: You can regain energy by spending it while exploring. At random intervals, your lion can come across encounters where they will rest and regain up to 15% energy.
• Items: There are several items that will refill your energy or affect the rate at which your energy regenerates.

Hunger indicates how hungry your leader is. 0% means they are full while 100% means they are starving. You cannot kill your leader through starvation. If you starve your pride members, they will leave due to neglect (though they can be reclaimed within a set timeframe). Starving your leader just means they will gain less energy—1% energy every 15 minutes while they are at or above 60% hunger.

Thankfully, it's rather easy to keep your leader fed and happy. While you explore, you can come across carcasses that your leader will automatically consume.

Experience ("EXP") indicates how much experience progress your leader has gained so far. You can gain EXP by completing quests with the Quest Snake in Crossroads, winning battles against NPC while exploring, PVPing against other leaders, choosing certain options while exploring, and through EXP-granting items like Broken Drones, Coconuts, and Giant Tortoises.

Gaining EXP is very important to raise your king's stats efficiently, as each time your king accumulates enough EXP, you will be able to level him up on his page via a special "Level Up" button. This will advance your leader to the next level and grant your leader the amount of stats multiplied by 2 with your king's new level. For example, if your king reaches level 6, you will gain 6 x 2 stats, which makes it a total of 12 stats. The bigger level your king reaches, the more stats you'll gain!

It's worth to mention that once you reach higher levels, it will become more difficult to advance to the next level. EXP gained from battles, for example, is tied to your king's level, which means you will fill less of their EXP progression bar from a successful battle when you're on level 20 versus being on level 2.

Impression ("IMP") indicates how much impression progress your leader has gained so far. You can gain IMP by completing quests with the Quest Snake in crossroads, winning battles against NPCs while exploring, claiming lionesses, choosing certain options while exploring, and using an IMP-granting item called Dove Feast.

Your lions age by 1 month per rollover. If you refrain from rolling over your account for a day, fret not! Your lions will not age, get hungry or moody! How awesome is that?

Once a cub is born within your pride, it will be closely tied to their mother until they have been weaned (5 months old). All lions reach adolescence once they reach year 1st of their life (12 months), then reach adulthood at 2 years (24 months).

All regular lions within your pride may die randomly between the age of 15-16 years (however, they can be retired early for 10 SB each once they reach 14 years of age), while your leader can live up to 16 years. Grandpaws (which are kings that have been retired into your pride to live until they can cross the rainbow bridge) may live up to 17 years as an exception to that.

A pride leader will die naturally at 16 years and automatically take you to the retirement screen where you must choose a new leader before playing the game again. From the age of 15 years you can choose willingly and for free to retire your old man. Retirement can also happen before this time for a set fee of 10GB. Be aware if you replace your King again within a month of your last replacement there is an extra 15GB bypass fee! You can learn more about retirement here!

Subordinate males, aka "submales" or "sub males", are adult male lions that reside within your pride and are not your pride leader.

Submales cannot breed and are mostly used for Patrolling your territory once per hour. This may give your submale a stat boost, some random food or amusement items, as well as exclusive decorations and backgrounds.
You can learn more about Submales on this page.

Hunting parties can help you greatly with ordering your hunters into smaller, organized groups which you can easily send out on a hunt within a few clicks. In order to learn more about hunting parties, feel free to refer to this page.

A great way to start earning currency fast is by playing games each day! You unfortunately won't become a millionaire overnight by gaming, but the rewards you can earn aren't too shabby.

Trivia can earn you up to 20 SB for each question you answer correctly, if you choose questions from the "Difficult" category. Don't worry if you're lacking on Lioden knowledge—our Trivia page contains an answer key to all of that strange sphinx's questions!
For Trivia, you'll definitely want to play on "Difficult" three times each rollover. So long as you use the answer key, you've just earned yourself a nice 60 SB!

Serengeti Shuffle has a myriad of different prizes, including pure SB and items that sell for a pretty penny. If you've ever played Bejeweled, that's basically what Serengeti Shuffle is like. You'll want to play fast and make quick matches if you're aiming to get a high score.

A score between 2000 to 2499 can potentially grant you 20 to 50 SB. A score between 2500 to 2999 offers 100 SB. 3000 to 3499 can give a nice 200 SB. Once you reach 3500+, one of the prizes you can earn includes 400 SB! Even if you don't end up winning a bundle of SB every time you play, it's highly advised to make Serengeti Shuffle part of your daily routine. The game itself is rather short. You're given a meagre 120 seconds to make as many matches as you can, and when time runs out, or your board has to be reshuffled three times, you're out!

Black Stallions, Dove Feasts, Giant Tortoises, and Honeycombs are valued prizes from Serengeti Shuffle. While they can all be earned or found elsewhere, Serengeti Shuffle is the main way to get them outside of event shops and the Gorilla Enclave. Depending on what the current event is, and of course accounting for market fluctuations, these items can all sell at a price of 500 SB to 2 GB each!

The Silver Beetle Raffle doesn't always pay off, but it never hurts to enter it each day. For a cost of 10 SB, you're entered into a pool with hundreds of other players. Each day at 4am Lioden time, three lucky winners are randomly selected from this list of entrants, and they all end up 1000 SB richer!

You have a one-in-three chance of winning a prize from Cups. Unfortunately, this comes at a cost of 5 SB in order to pick up a cup, and you can play Cups once every hour. It's a fun and simple way to pass the time, and it sure does feel rewarding when you get lucky enough to pick up a cup that contains a prize! In terms of it being worth the investment and time, though, you may want to pass on Cups. Its prizes aren't considered valuable or desirable enough to warrant how much you may end up spending each day!

The Slot Machine is rather high risk and low reward. You can spin the Slot Machine five times each hour, and each spin costs you 50 SB. It's very, very easy to dump your entire SB fund into the Slot Machine—be wary of the "sunk cost" fallacy!

There are some prizes exclusive to the Slot Machine that can sell for decent amounts. This is the only place to get a Great Tit or Red Cock, as well as the elusive Jellyfish item. Energy Boosts, Lion Meat, and Grains of Paradise are jackpot rewards, but may not be worth the investment it could take to win them.
Play this at your own risk. Seriously.. it's addicting!

Last, but not least, is Whack-A-Snake. The biggest draws to this game are the exclusive backgrounds and decors that can be won only from Whack-A-Snake—nowhere else! It does offer an SB prize, but only for scores between 100 to 299, and in very little amounts: 10 SB and 25 SB.
Whack-A-Snake has a higher skill barrier than all other games, and it's definitely the least accessible out of all of them. It runs on Flash, which is no longer supported on most modern browsers. If you have access to a browser or device that can still safely use Flash and you're good with a mouse, drawing tablet, or touch screen, why not give it a shot? It generally takes 6 to 12 minutes to earn a high enough score to nab a decent prize.

Many of Whack-A-Snake's background and decor rewards can sell for a moderate amount of SB and GB. This is due in part to the fact that the game cannot be played by many people (whether due to lack of accessibility, skill, or time) as well as the large pool of potential prizes one can earn. Some branches and trades list the rarer decors up for 10 GB per item!

You can make a decent income by selling extra items you come across whilst exploring, hunting, or patrolling, especially if you set timers and efficiently use up your energy. Food and toys are always hot commodities and are constantly needed by others who have to maintain their prides. Certain food and toys are more valuable than others, whether due to their potential to give stats, or them being a required component in an expensive and desirable crafting recipe.

In terms of food, most players value food at 5 to 10 SB per one use. Critters and low-filling foods are not as valuable as bigger, bulkier carcasses, but they still have their roles! The Quest Snake often asks for miscellaneous critters for his quests, so make sure you hold onto those Gerbil, Meerkat, Otter, and Rat Carcasses.

If you have a smaller pride and manage to send out 20 successful hunts in one day, you could walk away with lots of extra carcasses. Many players are willing to buy a trade containing 100 uses of high-filling carcasses for a fee of 1200 SB or 1 GB!

You don't have to sell only to other players. If you don't feel confident enough to break into the market and interact with others, the mandrill at Monkey Business is always willing to buy things from you; however, he massively undercuts what others would be willing to pay.

If you rollover and something interesting occurred within your pride for that rollover, you will receive what is called a "Daily Rollover Summary".

These summaries are delivered straight to the Game Notifications section of your inbox. You will be notified when you receive a new summary. These summaries are intended to inform you if you have lions that are at risk of leaving, if any of your lionesses do not have nests and will be giving birth upon the next rollover, which lionesses gave birth for your current rollover, and so on.

Note: If you do not have anything worth reporting on, you will not receive a summary. The summary is only sent out if there has been a change within your pride, or if your lions are at risk of leaving.

Each day that you rollover in a row, you'll receive a corresponding reward. If you break the streak, you will be reset back to "Day 1". Rollover streaks go up to "Day 29", at which point you will receive the highest-tier reward (a Random Marking Applicator). You'll then be reset back down to "Day 1".

Each time you rollover, you'll receive a green banner stating you rolled over successfully, and what you received for rolling over that day. If you've forgotten what your reward was, you can always check your user log!

These rewards range from pure SB, to random toys, to Vulture Eggs, Nesting Material, Lucky Feet, and finally a Random Marking Applicator at the end of it all.